On Fri, 2011-07-01 at 23:33 +0200, Christian Hilberg wrote: > Hi everyone. > > Since the last announcement of the evolution-kolab team here on the list, our > source code (hosted at http://evolution-kolab.sourceforge.net/) has seen some > more polishing and now compiles on Debian/Squeeze in addition to > Ubuntu/Lucid. > We will make available a (source) release 0.0.13 soon, which contains the > fixes for Squeeze. > Next week will see some performance improvements over the current state, > and > by the end of next week, I am planning to have the post-0.0.13 release ready. > > The code base has received quite some testing (under Ubuntu/Lucid) already, > mainly in the area of Kolab inter-client compatibility. Online and offline > operational modes are working, including conflict resolution. More testing is > always welcome, of course. > > The evolution-kolab team now feels that we have reached a state where we can > begin working towards upstream integration. During the planning and coding > phases so far, we aligned all of our project decisions with the Evolution > team > as closely as our time schedule and resources permitted. This was done in > order to promote for an easy upstream integration process. We would like to > thank everyone here who helped us in the various aspects of creating a new > Evolution plugin. > > We would very much like to be hosted at gnome.org with our project. > SourceForge is a nice breeding platform, but we feel it is a little too far > away from GNOME, and since we are a true GNOME project, we think it would be > nice to add evolution-kolab directly to the Evolution project at its GNOME > site. > > The first step could be to create an evolution-kolab git repository at > gnome.org, at least this is what came to my mind instantly. In order to get > the prerequisites right, I have applied for a GNOME account with git access. > This has been vouched for by the Evolution team (thanks, Matt), and I have > received confirmation from the GNOME account management team today. > > Since neither my kernel concepts evolution-kolab team mates nor myself have > done upstream integration for an Evolution plugin yet, I would like to know > how we should best proceed from here. If there is any reading we should have > done prior to further acting, we'll gladly accept pointers to the relevant > documents. David (or anyone else involved there), I heard that you did the > same with your EWS team recently, so if there are any lessons-learned which > we > should heed to, we will also be happy to know. Long story short, we will just > be happy for any directing through this process so we can get through it > smoothly. You could create a package naming eg: evolution-kolab and create a new repository in git.gnome.org. http://live.gnome.org/Git/NewRepository has all the details required.
Thanks, Chenthill. > > Thanks a lot in advance, > Kind regards, > > Christian > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
